FNF 100 Lecture 5: child poverty fnf

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Family Studies
• Course: FNF 100
• Professor: Dan Mahoney

Document Summary

Child a(cid:374)d fa(cid:373)ily poverty: it"s effect o(cid:374) child health. Poverty rates for children in 19 rich nations in the 1990s: sweden- 2. 6%; us: 22. 6% live in poverty, canada: 15. 7% of children live in poverty. Why theres high ranks of child poverty in canada: High rates of poverty in first nation reseves (in the territories). When u get out of large urban centers very high rates of child poverty on reserves. Refers that it is an ongoing proplen in the country, its been with us for many years but it still persists and its not an easy problem to fix. A lot of programs trying to limit this, but its tenacious, its persistant, and impossible to diminish. Chart no easy fix, and its always with us, sometimes rates decrease but its always there. Going to take differernt ways of addressing the problem to be able to fix child poverty. Agencies and organizations in canada measure poverty in different ways.